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The Steelers and Raiders slugfest was a nice tribute to the Immaculate Reception

Is the NFL rigged or, better, yet, scripted?

I know there are a lot of cynics who would absolutely agree with either sentiment listed above, but they'd likely be wrong in both instances.

Let’s just say that Saturday night’s contest between the Steelers and Raiders at Acrisure Stadium, a game that was specifically scheduled to commemorate perhaps the most famous play in NFL history—the Immaculate Reception—was a perfect storm (if you will) that saw several factors come together at once to bring about the type of matchup that Steelers and Raiders fans witnessed 50 years and one day earlier when these two titans of the 1970s slugged it out in a divisional round playoff game at old Three Rivers Stadium.